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The hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the is policy and strategy in the middle east. First of all and foremost i want to submit for the record the statement by chairman mccain who is not here today. We are enjoying this morning by a group we all know well. We have all been before the committee. As i mentioned a minute ago and i think most of the members of this committee had seen you in action in the field and ambassador ryan crocker, you have been a diplomat in residence, Woodrow Wilson school of Public Affairs chris university. He has been all over the map and ambassador eric edelman, Counselors Center for strategic and budgetary assessment. By macaque this is your ninth appearance before this committee. Does that sound right to you . Yes. And ambassador james jeffrey, distinguished fellow, university of Washington Institute for near east policy. I remember being with you in turkey and other places. Of course, ambassador stuart jones, Vice
The hearing will come to order. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on the is policy and strategy in the middle east. First of all and foremost i want to submit for the record the i want to submit here today. We are enjoying the and ambassador ryan crocker, you have been a diplomat in residence, Woodrow Wilson school of Public Affairs chris university. He has been all over the map and ambassador eric edelman, Counselors Center for strategic and budgetary assessment. By macaque this is your ninth appearance before this committee. Does that sound right to you . Yes. And ambassador james jeffrey, distinguished fellow, university of Washington Institute for near east policy. I remember being with you in turkey and other places. Of course, ambassador stuart jones, Vice President your presence was both in jordan and iraq. It is great to have all behavior much of the nations attention over the last two decades has gone to the middle east in terms of military operations. And appropr
The middle east. First of all and foremost, i want to submit for the record the statement by chairman mccain who is not here today. Were joined this morning by a group we all know well. You have all been before this committee. As i mentioned to you a minute ago, and i think most of the members of this committee have seen you in action in the field, and ambassador crocker, you have been a diplomat in residence, woodrow wilson, school of public and International Affairs at princeton university. He has been all over the map, and in the last couple of decades. Ambassador eric edelman, counsellors center for strategic and budgetary assessment. By my account this is your ninth appearance before this committee. Does it sound right to you . Yeah. And ambassador jeffrey, the philip solange distinguished fellow, University Washington institute for near east policy. I remember being with you in turkey and other places, and, of course, ambassador stuart jones, Vice President of the colin group. Yo
Chairman. You talked about managing risk, mr. Chairman. Would removing our only airborne brigade, b. C. T. , in the arctic, or the only b. C. T. In the asia pacific, would that do to our credibility . Would that boles you are our credibility in the arctic or asia pacific with regard to the rebalance . And you talk about risk. It seems to me Vladimir Putin is militarizing this part of the world. If were actually removing force, removing forces, our own arctic trained forces, thats a way to increase risk because we know he views weakness as being provocative. Theyre making a move in the arctic. If we start withdrawing troops, the 425 in particular, i think that heightens risk. Would either of you care to comment on that . General dempsey yes. I think it increases risk but some of the decisions, and youre talking about the army in this case, but some of the choices that the Service Troops have to make in terms of resources, you know, the army is tasked going from 490,000 active where they